ACS

ACS specialise in repairing all makes of camera and optical equipment. Whatever the problem, from just simply cleaning the CCD to a major repair, you can rely on us.
FREE camera check at the show see the side bar.

T: 01953 889 324

Adobe

Adobe revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. Our award-winning software and technologies have set the standard for communication and collaboration for more than 25 years, bringing vital and engaging experiences to people across media and to every screen in their lives, at work and at play. The impact of Adobe® software is evident almost everywhere you look. Whether people are collaborating at work, transacting online, or socializing with friends, businesses use Adobe software and technologies to turn digital interactions into richer, high-value experiences that reach across computing platforms and devices to engage people anywhere, anytime. With a reputation for excellence and a portfolio of many of the most respected and recognizable software brands, Adobe is one of the world’s largest and most diversified software companies.

Eizo

Eizo Nanao Corporation is now firmly established as the world’s leading specialist in high-quality visual display systems. With the market showing rapid growth in both size and diversity, we continue to consolidate our position with products that integrate excellence in technology with new, cutting-edge software applications. Such integration inevitably transcends the traditional boundaries of development, design and production, and is taking EIZO forward into exciting and challenging new areas of business. Supported by an active commitment to the environment, EIZO quality is increasingly recognized for offering the best available combinations of performance, reliability, comfort and service. For major corporations, research institutes, financial and medical institutions, as well as professionals in many other fields, EIZO display systems define the current industry standards.

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Framing Mentor

Framing Mentor provides online training courses and offline consultancy services to picture framers worldwide. We're here to help you make your framing business more profitable and more enjoyable. We cater for framers of all levels; whether you're an old hand or a complete newbie. Use our online training courses to learn framing and business skills in your own time and at your own speed.

We also work to keep you up to date with news and insight from the picture framing industry. Visit our blog for articles and advice, or connect and communicate with other framers and suppliers in our forums. Framing Mentor is a community, and we want you to get involved.

Framing Mentor is run by Jim Anderson, picture framer and serial entrepreneur since 1985. Jim is passionate about both the craft of framing and the business of it. He works with experts from across the industry to build resources designed to help you.

Consultancy Services 

When you run a small business, you are expected to deal with a huge array of issues. It's unlikely that any one person could have the skill set to do them all justice; but neglecting them can mean that your business will suffer. 

Often, juggling all these issues can make it hard to see the wood from the trees. That's where I come in. By taking a fresh view of your business I can quickly help you to pinpoint areas that could be drastically improved and help you to do so.

Graphistudio

A New Concept
Convert your wedding album and shape your dreams into a time capsule of happy memories. The latest innovation from Graphistudio encapsulates memories and keeps them preserved and protected in a timeless, stylish, new and totally unique form of presentation. Totally new - totally different - Graphistudio again lead's the field with its brilliant innovations and now sets yet higher standards of design quality with a brand new form of display presentation. Simple yet stylish, this unique new way to display memories is yet another example of Graphistudio's ability to set a trend and forge ahead with great new ideas.

Hireacamera

Hireacamera is a family run business that has become one of the most popular suppliers in the UK of D-SLR cameras, lenses and accessories, with a comprehensive range of genuine UK sourced equipment from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Sigma and other major manufacturers. 

Hireacamera hires both video and photographic equipment for delivery Nationwide with the option of over 60 pick-up and drop-off points. A large stock of accessories is also available for hire including flashguns, tripods and lighting equipment. Hireacamera is also Sigma’s UK authorised hire partner and provides an extensive range of Sigma lenses in Nikon, Canon, Sony & Sigma mounts.  All bookings are insured in transit and delivered the day before the hire and collected the day after. In the event of short notice, same day delivery is available to London and the South East.  An insurance option is available to all customers, allowing you to hire without having to provide a deposit.

Just

CLEANING & PROTECTIVE PRODUCTS FOR CAMERAS AND ALL OPTICAL EQUIPMENT

Dust is the bane of every photographer’s life. Whether it is dust on the lens, dust on the sensor, the scanner or on transparencies and negatives. Dust can degrade optical equipment, ruin an image, add to retouching costs and damage valuable equipment. Whichever way you look at it, dust costs – period.

At Just we are dedicated to providing solutions to dust problems. We don’t promise to eliminate dust from your life, but we do strive to make it a manageable problem by providing cost effective solutions for a wide variety of imaging situations.

For digital SLR photographers we have safe, guaranteed products to help keep the imaging sensor clean. We also provide guidance, tutorials, product videos and telephone support to help you achieve success when cleaning the sensor.

With some companies charging up to £150 to clean the sensor in a digital SLR, it makes sound economic sense to manage this issue yourself.

We can show you how!

You may also find our frequently asked question page helpful.

Light Blue Software

Award-winning business management software for photographers
Designed for all types of photographers, from one-person businesses to studios with several staff, Light Blue is a flexible business management system that lets you keep on top of shoots, orders and contacts. It's bursting with clever things to help you to run a busy and successful business, and Light Blue also makes it easy to manage your image files, publish them on the web and profit from them.

Download a fully functioning copy today for a 30-day trial to see how Light Blue can help make running your photography business easy.

How can Light Blue help you?

Track enquiries, bookings and shoots: Know exactly what's happening when, and publish information to iCal or Google Calendar.

Be personal: Easily create mail-merge letters and emails to add that individual touch to your communications.

Handle your finances with ease: Add new orders, track payments, find outstanding debts, record expenditure and get an overview of your current position.

Publish your pictures online and profit from them: Effortlessly create attractive web galleries from sets of pictures, linked to PayPal's shopping cart.

Do it your way: Update your logos and templates yourself, with no extra fees.

Enjoy running your business: Light Blue is intutitive and pleasing to the eye, putting a little bit of joy back into the soulless world of admin.

Find out more about how Light Blue can help you.

Loxley Colour

Loxley Colour is your ideal choice for everything you need from professional photographic printing to wedding album manufacture. Our range of products and services reflects our commitment to providing you with the most technologically advanced workflow solutions available in today’s market.

Creating the Perfect Wedding Memories
Welcome to the world of Bellissimo, a stimulating range of stylish book bound albums offered by Loxley Colour.
The Bellissimo Range is manufactured at our extensive production facility meaning you will receive the full support you have come to expect from the UK’s leading professional laboratory.

Memento Photo Frames

Your personal message will be engraved into the surface of the Memento Photo Frames in almost any language.

Your customers special moment captured by you in a photograph, after which we can personalise the frame by engraving a message onto a black photo glass frame in any text. All we need are the customer’s instructions from you. This is then engraved and hand crafted by our skilled craftsman into the glass and will look stunning in any environment. The frame can be wall mounted or used in a fitted stand.

MPA

Established in 1952 and with over 2000 members, the Master Photographers Association is the United Kingdom's only organisation for full time, qualified and professional photographers.

The MPA offers members a variety of membership benefits, including education qualifications, informative regional meetings, national seminars, business building promotions and marketing support. 

Photo Training 4U

Learn the day-to-day photography techniques of top portrait & wedding photographers as well as the author of ” Portrait Photography - The Secrets of Posing & Lighting” “Taking Great Family Portraits” ” Wedding Photography”, ” The Complete Guide to Lighting” and ” Photoshop in a Weekend”

PhotoTraining4U is the answer to all your photo-training needs in genuinely affordable, short photography videos that you can easily fit into daily coffee breaks.

To Instruct & Inspire you is our goal, your skill level doesn’t matter, you can be a keen amateur photographer or a seasoned Pro – you just choose the subject that fits what you want to learn today, whether to “Instruct” you in a technique or to “Inspire” you with ideas, there is a video in the knowledge bank to watch. 

Workshops can cost you thousands during a year but this meticulously planned photographer training website can instruct you or inspire you every day. Developed by Mark Cleghorn, one of the best known and most respected professional photographers, PhotoTraining4U will transform the way you work and the profits you make – and for less than the price of a coffee and a sandwich each week!

With over 800 films already on line and with at least three new films added every week, can you afford not to be a member of this life changing photographer training programme.

Photostorie

Photostorie are the leading suppliers of both Digital and Traditional wedding albums and Photo books.
All prospective customers are offered full size free sample albums which may be updated from time to time.

With over thirty five years in the Professional Photographic business we appreciate the challenges which face Photographers on a daily basis and are therefore better prepared to provide the answers you need.

Our quality is outstanding in all respects and to reinforce this we offer a lifetime guarantee on all our products. This quality assurance provides peace of mind to all our customers and yours..

Sim2000

Sim 2000 Imaging offers professional photographers a one-stop shop for all their printing and binding needs. We will produce high quality digital albums and parent books, portrait books, coffee table books and proof books, as well as a full range of marketing materials so that you can promote your business in the best possible way. We are delighted to also introduce a new range of wall hanging solutions, which include box frames, block mounts and layered acrylics, with more types of frames to be introduced shortly. You can design any of our products using our free 'SimWare' software, easily downloadable from our website. All our products are handmade in our factory at Elstree, ensuring you receive the highest quality products at the most competitive prices, with the best possible customer service. 

The Click Group

BUMP TO BABY

Since 2009, The Click Group has total prenatal exclusivity for its Bump to Baby and My First Year schemes with Bounty, the UK’s largest prenatal and postnatal data company. Therefore we have exclusive opt in data from Bounty of women who are 6 months pregnant.

The Bump to Baby scheme is free of charge to Click members and only £50 joining fee for non members. You can then select the postcode area of the leads you wish to receive, at a low cost of £5 per post code, per year! Postcodes are dependent on availability, but you can have as many as you like!

The first mail piece gives the recipient the chance to have a Bump to Baby photo session… One with the bump & then again when the baby is born, offering a 5”x7” print free of charge from each session.

Leads are just 75p + Vat each. Once you have the data, we already have beautifully designed mail pieces at incredible prices for you to use and get started straight away. You may use the data twice, once when you receive your data you send out the Bump 2 Baby offer mailer, and then 8 weeks the registration mailer for My 1st Year.

The Second mail piece offers a My First Year photo session, where the baby will be photographed three times in their first year at approx 1, 6 and 12 months. After the 3rd session you offer an acrylic block - our signature product!

With no long term contract, there is nothing to loose! To claim your share of 360,000 sets of quality data records per year, contact The Click Group.

The Image File

Theimagefile is a constantly updated web strategy for the photographer. Take a trial account and build a great business grabbing website and be selling your images worldwide in three currencies two hours later. Or quickly update your web site by adding some of our fabulous pages like the flipping album, contract page, or special contact page.

Uploading your images is easy and selecting your sales, options from the collections is super simple. Have your customer orders go directly to your choice of partner lab, they will send back to your customer under your branding, saving double postage and your time.

Slideshows, your watermarking and re-sizing is all done for you. All this with fast and friendly telephone support.

If you are looking for a way to improve your web site, get more business or just sell more this summer take a trial with theimagefile and relax knowing it is all sorted. Even better, just use the Promo code summer11 before the end of June for an additional month for just £1.00.

Telephone enquiries welcome – 0845 118 0030

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